Monkey business in Kyoto
Arashiyama is a lovely outer district of Kyoto to which people have been coming for
Japan
The deer of Nara headbutt
Nara was the capital of Japan in the 700s and there’s an amazing amount to
Walking the nightingale floor and fish fingers on a stick
The best bit of Kyoto Castle is the nightingale floor: It’s made deliberately to be
Six hundred years of raking gravel
Into every life some mundanity must fall. We spent this morning doing our washing, catching
24 geishas on the way to the supermarket
The geishas come later; you’ll have to wait. First comes the fire. A Buddhist prayer
Koyosan is just utterly atmospheric
You can look at the photographs. Please do. But it won’t work. Neither words not
Osaka Castle and the last Samurai
I blame my parents for the fact I’ve eaten way too much over the last
Nakesendo Trail Day Three: The not so hardest part
The trail winding over the Torii pass was held to be the toughest part of
Nakasendo Trail day Two (sort of): a cold, a castle, and four moons
Facing 18km of walking today we opted for an early start. After a breakfast that